Okay, so I have two shows that I’m trying to develop. I’m unsure of how to develop them because I don’t know exactly what type of markets (channels) they’re fit for. Could you help me? I need to know what kind of channel it would be viable on so that I can plan episodes in the general and common amount.
One is an hour-long comedy-drama about the staff at a high school. They deal with the struggles of teaching students, relating to colleagues, dealing with school activities, communicating with parents, balancing work with their personal lives, mixing their personal lives and work lives together, secrets, and scandals. I should point out that there was a similar show to this called Boston Public which aired from 2000-2004. It’s no longer being rerun so I don’t know how to make it different from that show and to avoid accidentally plagiarizing it. It seems like because schools are not as popular in pop culture as cop, lawyer, and doctor shows, it’s more difficult to make them different, and easier to be accused of being unoriginal.
The other is about six quirky and eccentric black and Latino teenagers living on the South Side of Chicago dealing with not being accepted by their peers for being odd and dealing with the trials and tribulations of adolescence one day at a time.